The best morning so far, totally dominated by Japan. Unfortunately this is my last logging from the Charlottes for the time being. We're leaving for the mainland at 23:00 tonight, and should be home in Victoria Saturday night.
180 RUSSIA Radio Rossii, Petropavlovsk, Jul 7 11:57 - A miuch better morning right from the start! Good signal levels from this channel. Most of the other Russian far east stations on LW are blocked by numerous aeronautical beacons. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 590 CANADA ?CFTK, Jul 7 04:50 - I've never noticed this before but 590 runs in parallel to 560. Both are strong here, with 560 being a bit more powerful. I never did hear any legal IDs, other than a generic ID as, 'Only one station plays your music, the Mix'. I wondered about a receiver image or spur, but this is not the case. 590 is a fraction of a second ahead of 560. When they break for ads, the two stations play different ads, and then resume the feed. I don't have my WRTH, so don't know the exact details. These two stations wipe out any possible Alaskans (KVOK, Kodiak and KHAR, Anchorage) unfortunately. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 693 JAPAN JOAB, Tokyo, Jul 7 11:59 - Three + one time pips at fair to good level with NHK2 programming. Parallel to 747 JOIB, Sapporo (poor/fair), and 774 JOUB, Akita (fair). (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 700 ALASKA KBYR, Anchorage, Jul 7 12:59 - Finally got an ID through some local hash, as 'Talk Radio, KBYR'. Good reception otherwise. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 770 ALASKA KCHU, Valdez, Jul 7 13:30 - NPR news at 13:30. No local ID at 14:00 and went into NPR news again. Finally ID'd for KCHU, Valdez at 14:49. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 837 JAPAN JOQK, Nigata, Jul 7 12:05 - Fair reception of NHK1 programming. Parallel to 891 JOHK, Sendai (fair). (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 954 JAPAN JOKR, Tokyo, Jul 7 12:10 - Strong reception of TBS, Tokyo with sports play by play. S6 to S7 strength. A totally dominant Japanese morning. This, down in Victoria and Grayland normally happens in the fall and winter. Whether this is just an occasional observation or a regular occurence remains to be seen. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 972 KOREA (SOUTH) HLCA, Jul 7 12:11 - Liberty one with Korean programming at poor to fair levels. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 1008 NEW ZEALAND 1ZD, Tauranga, Jul 7 12:17 - The lone Kiwi station heard today, with good reception! Many IDs for 'Newstalk ZD'. They were interviewing the New Zealand PM about the London bombings. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 1053 JAPAN JOAR, Nagoya, Jul 7 12:22 - Fair to good reception with Japanese ads by YLs. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 1197 JAPAN NHK, Jul 7 12:30 - Good audio from one of the low power Japanese stations, with the usual sing-song delivery by very young sounding women. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 1269 JAPAN HBC, Hokkaido, Jul 7 12:35 - Either JOHW or JOFM 1 or 5 kw, parallel to 50 kw 1287 JOHR from Sapporo (with good reception). (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 1332 JAPAN JOSF, Nagoya, Jul 7 12:42 - Fair reception with Japanese talk by a man and woman. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 1386 JAPAN NHK2, Jul 7 12:45 - Initially in slow English, with mention of Australia and New Zealand, but switched to Japanese, so presumably an NHK2 station with language lessons. Fair to good. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 1440 JAPAN JOWF, Sapporo, Jul 7 12:47 - Strong reception in Japanese. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 1503 JAPAN NHK1?, Jul 7 12:49 - A presumed logging with a radio play in Japanese. Good reception. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 1566 KOREA (SOUTH) HLAZ, Jul 7 12:54 - Excellent reception this morning in Japanese. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 1584 JAPAN NHK 1, Jul 7 12:57 - Very weak but parallel to 1503. Not sure of location of transmitter. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) 4930 SAO TOME VOA, Jul 7 05:30 - Fair reception with English VOA programming, but lots of atmospheric static. (Salmaniw, Tow Hill, Queen Charlotte Is, BC) ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
